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Post by Silver on Jan 29, 2011 18:39:05 GMT -5
I hope you enjoy. Going off your question, does social status still generally seem like an important matter in the U.K?
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Post by Skybird14 on Jan 30, 2011 12:38:56 GMT -5
I hope you enjoy. Going off your question, does social status still generally seem like an important matter in the U.K? People say it's not important but I think it is still an important thing in most peoples lives. It seems to me that at the moment everyone hates the middle classes and there's one newspaper in particular that seems to be fuelling that. Not only that but I've noticed, more so since I left school that people on a whole mix better with people of their own social class. In one of my jobs I work with a lot of working class people and despite my efforts to get to know them as individuals I don't feel that I fit in with them and that there's some kind of inverted snobbery going on.
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Post by Silver on Jan 30, 2011 14:57:08 GMT -5
Life can be a pain. Here in the U.S, race, gender, religious backround and ect are also still many issues in the form of judgement. Are those issues big or small in the U.K? Or are they even an issue at all?
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Post by Skybird14 on Jan 31, 2011 3:55:18 GMT -5
Life can be a pain. Here in the U.S, race, gender, religious backround and ect are also still many issues in the form of judgement. Are those issues big or small in the U.K? Or are they even an issue at all? They're a huge issue but it's mainly because we're overly politically correct these days so I think it increases tension.
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Post by Silver on Jan 31, 2011 4:48:01 GMT -5
Going a bit off your question.
When you came ot visit New York, what stereotypes did you find to be both true and untrue about Americans?
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Post by Skybird14 on Jan 31, 2011 12:40:45 GMT -5
Going a bit off your question. When you came ot visit New York, what stereotypes did you find to be both true and untrue about Americans? The main thing I noticed was that customer service out there isn't always as good as everyone makes it out to be. It's really no different to the customer service in the UK, which is excellent in some places and poor in others. Another thing was the portion sizes in the restaurants. They're far bigger than they are over here. I noticed that the stereotype about Americans being more open than British people was true. My sister and I had a lovely conversation with someone in Grand Central that just wouldn't have happened in the UK.
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Post by Silver on Jan 31, 2011 23:49:48 GMT -5
The food stereotype is very much true. We do eat a great deal. I think we have some of the biggest portion sizes in the world. But I'm glad to hear you found many people open and kind. What stereotype about the British gets on your nerves?
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Post by Skybird14 on Feb 1, 2011 4:21:51 GMT -5
The food stereotype is very much true. We do eat a great deal. I think we have some of the biggest portion sizes in the world. But I'm glad to hear you found many people open and kind. What stereotype about the British gets on your nerves? The accent thing is one of the stereotypes that gets on my nerves. In a lot of American made films they assume English people either talk posh ('oh jolly good show' sort of thing) or that we have a cockney accent ('yarright guvna'). They totally ingnore all the other accents.
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Post by Silver on Feb 1, 2011 17:56:05 GMT -5
What's your favorite Celine Dion song?
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Post by Skybird14 on Feb 2, 2011 14:18:52 GMT -5
What's your favorite Celine Dion song? I'm quite fond of 'It's All Coming Back To Me Now' (Jim Stienman is one of my favourite songwriters) and I also like 'My Heart Will Go On'.
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Post by Silver on Feb 2, 2011 17:04:36 GMT -5
That is a wonderful song. Which pop singer do you think is the most overrated today?
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Post by Skybird14 on Feb 3, 2011 15:16:31 GMT -5
That is a wonderful song. Which pop singer do you think is the most overrated today? There's a few and Justin Bieber is one of them along with Cheryl Cole and JLS (JLS are a group actually but they're still overrated).
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Post by Silver on Feb 4, 2011 0:12:22 GMT -5
I boo the Beiber fever. Yuck!
Have you ever thought about other life-forms out there in space?
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Post by Skybird14 on Feb 6, 2011 10:00:40 GMT -5
I boo the Beiber fever. Yuck! Have you ever thought about other life-forms out there in space? It's not something I'm really interested in so I don't give it much thought although if there is life forms on other planets I think they're probably going to be like amoeba-type things rather than anything too advanced.
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Post by Silver on Feb 8, 2011 22:39:58 GMT -5
Going off your question.
Do you like alcoholic beverages? If so, do you have any favorites?
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